Commercial Dictionary: Containing the Present State of Mercantile Law, Practice, and Custom; Intended for the Use of the Cabinet, the Counting-House, and the Library (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Commercial Dictionary: Containing the Present State of Mercantile Law, Practice, and Custom; Intended for the Use of the Cabinet, the Counting-House, and the Library

The merchant occupied in his counting-house, amidst variety of business has little leisure to consult those voluminous works, which comprehend and elucidate commercial legislation, and the almost inexpressibly diversified cases which have been determined constructive of those laws: the custom of merchants is, indeed, universally decided by a jury of commercial men; and by a tribunal so conversant with mercantile relations, such points will always be best adjudged. Questions may nevertheless occur, participating both of law and fact, in which the court and jury may be said to hold a divided jurisdiction; and under such circumstances it may be necessary to know those cases which have been previously settled, and in what degree legal analogies approximate to the subject in litigation.

The Author has selected his materials from the enactments of the legislature, and the reporters and commercial writers of the mostacknowledged authority. He has freely availed himself of the voluminous library of the lawyer, and the assistance of mercantile men; together with that great mass of information which the increased commerce of this country has produced during the last twenty years of the eighteenth century and which has never yet been presented to the Public in such a systematic form, as reduces the general result of this combined intelligence into moderate compass, and adapting it to the use of the counting house, as well as to the library of the Statesman and Scholar.

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